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Music Production

Creativity & Innovation

Course Description

Students in this course will study recording industry projects. Students will learn how to manage the overall scope of a recording project from initial concept to completion, as well as modern recording studio techniques. There will be both lectures and hands-on studio practice.


Athena Title

MBUS Production


Prerequisite

Permission of department


Semester Course Offered

Offered fall and spring


Grading System

A - F (Traditional)


Student Learning Outcomes

  • The Music Production student will be able to demonstrate and employ the technical skills required to devise, capture, produce and distribute a piece of music from inception to completion employing skills acquired from this course.
  • The Music Production student will be able to operate, record and organize the capture, edit and mix of a musical performance utilizing the Avid Pro Tools software suite.
  • The Music Production student will discuss and employ the various elements of the recording studio including microphones, equalizers and amplifiers as well as identify appropriate methods for managing affiliated musicians and personnel.

Topical Outline

  • Communication and financial process
  • Uniting the business side and creative side of a project
  • Session flow
  • Personnel management in the recording studio
  • Studio production methods
  • Studio management

Institutional Competencies

Creativity & Innovation

The capacity to combine or synthesize existing ideas, images, or expertise in original ways and the experience of thinking, reacting, and working in an imaginative way characterized by innovation, divergent thinking, and risk taking.



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